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OrthoFan wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 8:50 pm Many thanks for the input. I wonder if anyone is going to grab it. (I'm surprised Peter F didn't jump on it.)

poodling around wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 5:53 am ..... So one version sold for 8 dollars in 1905. According to one website that is 2,709 dollars 'in today's money'. Just for the horn. Some rich people around I guess.

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflat ... ?amount=80

Thanks for posting that link, since it goes farther back than the inflation calculator I normally use.

I was a little puzzled by that, and double-checked the site. I noticed, instead of $8.00, you had entered $80.00:
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$8.00 (1905 USD) would be $270.92, which would be more in line with what I'd expect for the times--still expensive though.

OrthoFan